Peruvian Indigenous Take Hostages and Demand Oil Spill Cleanup

Lima, Mar 8 (EFE).- Residents of an indigenous community in the Peruvian Amazon are holding eight state employees hostage in order to pressure the government into including their village in the state of emergency declared following oil spills in the Loreto region. An air force helicopter carrying provisions and workers of state oil company Petroperu and the OEFA environmental oversight agency had been barred from leaving since last Sunday in Mayuriaga. Eight of the workers